12 Blockchain Programming Languages (2026)

1

Solidity

Solidity is a statically-typed curly-braces programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on Ethereum.

2

Liquidity

Liquidity is a high-level language to program smart contracts for Dune Network and Tezos and is a fully typed functional language.

3

Java (Baeldung)

Java language guide for blockchain software development, including a reference implementation of a simple blockchain.

4

Python

Python language for blockchain applications – the official home of the Python programming language.

5

JavaScript (MDN)

JavaScript for blockchain application building – MDN's official JavaScript reference and guides.

6

C++ (ISO C++)

C++ language tools and libraries for blockchain application development, from the home of Standard C++ on the web.

7

Rholang

Rholang is a concurrent programming language, with a focus on message-passing and formally modeled by the ρ-calculus, a reflective, higher-order extension of the π-calculus.

8

Go

Go language for blockchain software engineering – an open-source programming language supported by Google.

9

Rust

Rust for blockchain applications – a curated collection of libraries and packages for blockchain and cryptography in Rust.

10

Erlang

Erlang for blockchain programming – a functional language with built-in support for concurrency, distribution, and fault tolerance, well suited to distributed ledger systems.

11

CX (Skycoin)

From smart contracts to machine learning and video games, CX is Skycoin’s feature-rich programming language.

12

Vyper

Vyper is a contract-oriented, pythonic programming language that targets the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).